Village Attempt

[stryfe1986]

Well this is what I intend on doing.


1. Found a Village
2. Make it huge (have different districts and everything, some timber houses, or cabins, or mansions, or mixed)
3. Make sure my village has access to all the resources (i.e Metal, Wood, Food)
4. Create Jobs
5. Create Salary for Jobs
6. Use the Coins as they are meant for, Currency.



Note: I understand I will need people to keep my Village intact, and before that even happens I will first make sure my village is completely built the way I intend on having it, with the housing and all. Then I intend on inviting newcomers, or hermits, or anyone for that matter to what I will call "The Probation District". This is where newcomers to the village will reside until they are able to pay for their own home of their choice inside our first line of walls in a resident section (District 1, District Alpha, or whatever). I plan on having at least 5 different resident districts with each having a difference or offering more such as, an Oven, a Yard, a Tree, Furnished, etc... Now of course I would be the "Mayor" in a sense and make sure everything is going well, Farmers, Hoarders, Cooks, Builders, etc... make sure all these tasks are being done regularly and each job task will have its salary in coins.

I will have High Quality goods that have been farmed, cooked, fished, whatever on stalls for sale, anything from raws to cooked, or materials to finished product.

This will create the rotation in Currency, from the stalls, to me, to the people working and thus a Currency system has been created within in one Village using what was intended, The Coin.


FAQS

1. How will you keep other people from making coins?
Simple, Metal is not for sale, and I am in charge of Mining.
2. How do you know people wont steal from their job?
I don't, Like irl, it will happen and there is really nothing much I can do about it
4. So if I join your Village and you give me a job, when do I get paid? How Much?
I will be giving a certain amount of coins upon joining, and pay will be issued either weekly, or every 3 days, (IRL)
5. How will you give me my money? and how do you know how much to pay?
each house will have a gate, and only you and me will have the key, I will either put it inside your house on a container or give it to you if
you are on.
6. What is "The Probation District"? How is it different?
Probation District is meant to analyze new members of the village and their integrity. Your homes will not have a gate, they will not be
furnished, and will have access to the Main Village on certain times
7. What about the time difference? How do you know I have completed my job?
I am aware of time difference and that is part of the Probational Period. I will assign people in charge of making sure you have done your
job, I will be one of those people.
8. Wait a minute! your just going to sit there and have everyone do everything for you, that's not fair!
Wrong, I am in charge of Metal, with that responsibility comes that of a Blacksmith, Anything with metal I create.
9. So what if no one buys anything? how will currency keep revolving?
I will issue a call for spending if the time ever comes where the Village "has no more funds"
10. How do you intend on keeping track of people in the village? their jobs? their pay? their requests?
A Website will be created that will support a system where records will be kept and make available to the public. I will also impliment a
request widget where any villager may request certain products that we are low on, such as, Food, Weapons, Armor, Materials.
11. What About thief's and griefers?
what about them? they will more than likely come and there really isnt anything we can do about that, I will have security jobs as well, and
trackers, but beyond that, not much we can do. (like IRL)


Any additional questions will be answered at my earliest convenience but besides any questions, what do you guys think of this?

[Brickbreaker]

It's gonna be hard work doin it alone though. And as for metal, youll need a mine. Also even if you truly are the one who makes coins, but what
will stop the villagers getting metal elsewhere? unless you lock them in ofcourse, which in that case good luck finding anyone interested.

I like your experiment though, hope it works.

[sabinati]

do you... have a mine?

[Brickbreaker]

yup. Iron.

[stryfe1986]

It's gonna be hard work doin it alone though. And as for metal, youll need a mine. Also even if you truly are the one who makes coins, but what
will stop the villagers getting metal elsewhere? unless you lock them in ofcourse, which in that case good luck finding anyone interested.

I like your experiment though, hope it works.

Dont intend on locking them in, but attaining metal elsewhere isn't that bad i would assume, because regardless of how they attain it, it would of cost them time, and effort to find in which case I don't think it will cause any currency issues, they could easily get it at the village for doing a task that will also give them LP

[stryfe1986]

do you... have a mine?

not yet unfortunately, but I've been thinking about that Village idea for a long time now, and I thought it would be best to get the opinion of the people in the game.

[bitza]

well, since you asked for opinions, it doesn't sound like a place i would want to live to be quite honest.
reasons:

1. it sounds like you want to have just a little too much control over every little detail that happens in your village. for example:

where newcomers to the village will reside until they are able to pay for their own home

it sounds, well, stressful to be honest, like you would freak out if i happened to put an oven or a tree in the wrong spot.

2. if i wanted to deal with jobs, salaries, requisition forms etc. i would go play that game called "real life". the graphics are good but i hear that you have to grind a lot to get ahead

3. with all of the micromanagement that it sounds like you are planning to do, you're either going to burn out (seen it happen before in other games when one guy tries to do too much for everyone), or if something comes up to where you can't log on for a few days, sounds to me like everything in your village would fall apart, since apparently you'll be the only one doing the planning and thinking there. also you're the only blacksmith

but good luck finding that mine, and do let us know how it goes

[Swabian]

I for one do not like this particular idea for a village. The main reason is because the OP/leader seems to be already gloating around with his ego out when he (as far as we know) has accomplished none of it. Secondly, enforced or artificial regulations rarely go down well, announcing a whole host of them right off the bat is even worse. Rules and laws should be made in response to what people already living in a place desire for, otherwise they're just going to be ignored if you don't have people to intimidate them to following it.
Most cities are formed organically. The ones that aren't, usually already have a whole lot of man power and resources to get them running.

[maltmaker]

i llike the idea, i think its very unlikley it will work, but id love to join it if it works out or help start it up

[stryfe1986]

well, since you asked for opinions, it doesn't sound like a place i would want to live to be quite honest.
reasons:

1. it sounds like you want to have just a little too much control over every little detail that happens in your village. for example:

where newcomers to the village will reside until they are able to pay for their own home

it sounds, well, stressful to be honest, like you would freak out if i happened to put an oven or a tree in the wrong spot.

2. if i wanted to deal with jobs, salaries, requisition forms etc. i would go play that game called "real life". the graphics are good but i hear that you have to grind a lot to get ahead

3. with all of the micromanagement that it sounds like you are planning to do, you're either going to burn out (seen it happen before in other games when one guy tries to do too much for everyone), or if something comes up to where you can't log on for a few days, sounds to me like everything in your village would fall apart, since apparently you'll be the only one doing the planning and thinking there. also you're the only blacksmith



but good luck finding that mine, and do let us know how it goes

to defend your statements:

1. Nah I think the only problem would be if you put something that would block the main access, or someone else home lol that would be funny but uhh could cause problems down the road

2. Not much i can do about that

3. I don't Intend on being the only one, I would hope after a while I could gain enough confidence on people who would share the same vision of a prospering village.


I don't intend on being "The Mayor" I just intend on being it as we start to make sure at least some things are being controlled until there are others i can trust that responsibility with.